We've achieved a lot of uniformity in software development through a "single source of truth" pattern. You don't copy and paste the code for the same result; you call the same function. And honestly to do otherwise was impractical.
I worry that AI offers a new path to uniformity via enforcement. "Just do it the same everywhere," can be effective now, which just wasn't the case before AI. Yeah, you could extract this commonality into a general tool, or you could just keep these two in sync.
Shane Celis
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